Bethany from London was our lucky contract worker who won the iPad from our June competition entries.
Presented by Paul Johnston, Business Development Director of ePayMe
Please visit our competition page to see how you could win a fantastic prize. During the month of July, you could win a 50" TV. … [Read more...]

Following changes for off payroll working in the Public Sector, many contractors may have found themselves assessed as working inside IR35. Many end clients do not want the hassle of deciding each individual case and so have placed a blanket ban on all contractors. Many of these contractors cease operating through their own limited company, and opt instead for umbrella employment as their agency and end client have suggested. For a contractor working inside IR35 this is usually the better … [Read more...]

It really couldn't be any easier.
1 x iPad will be won by a Consultant - If you are a consultant working with us, you will be placed in the draw for every contractor you send to us. (There are no restrictions on how many times you can be entered)
1 x iPad will be won by a Contractor - All new contractors registering with us before the end of June 2017, will also be placed in the draw to win. (You will need to be fully registered and in an assignment to qualify)
The draw will … [Read more...]

PSCs are being blocked from staying as ‘Ltd’ companies and applying IR35 because agencies and public bodies want to head off hassle next month of assessing status and withholding tax.
Ultimatums are therefore being sent to such PSCs before April 6th, in essence saying ‘convert to a PAYE umbrella, ignore the less-taxing model of being a PSC inside IR35, or be out of work.’
“The best option for [you/a PSC], with regard to take-home pay, and us [the agency], from an admin and compliance … [Read more...]

Contractors who supply the NHS through limited companies will likely move to umbrella companies before April’s IR35 reform comes into force, a health service IT recruiter predicts.
Contractors’ next best alternative is to leave the public sector or the NHS for the private sector instead, says Don Tomlinson, managing director of NHS IT staffing firm max20.
Tomlinson sounded aware that contractors who don’t act before April will have a third option -- stay as a limited company and accept the … [Read more...]

Hospitals have been ordered to simply stop paying external managers through personal service companies.
Jim Mackay, chief executive of health service regulator NHS Improvement, reportedly issues the order in a letter he sent to hospital leaders on Tuesday.
Seen by the Times, the letter states that interims in leadership roles can be hired only if they are set clear goals and held to account for failure to achieve them.
The criteria come after Mr Mackay wrote there is sometimes either … [Read more...]

Last Monday saw the release of the HMRC’s draft finance bill, detailing the reforms as to how the IR35 legislation must be operated in the public sector from April 2017.
There have been strong reactions from industry bodies to the Government’s new ‘Draft provisions for Finance Bill 2017’, nearly 400 pages of new tax legislation setting out the draft provisions for technical consultation, including changes to National Insurance contributions, clampdown on salary sacrifice contracts for new car … [Read more...]

For many years being Self Employed meant working for yourself with no input from anyone else. Gone are the days of “cash-in-hand” as HMRC are clamping down on the whereabouts of Tax and NI for these services. If you are actively sourcing your own work for yourself and have no input from another source then you can be classed as self-employed, if however, you rely on an agency to source you this work then you are classed as employed and so will need to be PAYE or Limited status.
PAYE can be … [Read more...]

A new online tax tool designed to offer reassurance over the rules regarding IR35 status is likely to cause more problems than it will solve, according to the Freelancer & Contractor Services Association (FCSA).
HM Revenue & Customs has designed the tool to be used by contractors, agencies or hirers to provide a definitive document to prove that a contractor is working according to IR35 rules, assuming that the questions are answered honestly.
But the trade association for umbrella … [Read more...]

ContractorUK has recently written that “Temporary staff agencies have avoided hundreds of millions (if not billions) in tax”…………..
HOW?
By a scheme that far too many agencies are allowing contractors and temporary workers to register with – THIS HAS TO STOP.
In simplistic terms, the scheme pairs up all the workers, and routes them through a myriad of smaller Limited Companies. Clearly, these are NOT TRUE Limited companies. These mini employment companies are ultimately exploiting both VAT … [Read more...]

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